Of Essence and Context / Numanities - Arts and Humanities in Progress Bd.7 (PDF)

Rima Povilioniene (b. 1975), Ph.D. She is an associate professor and the Head of theDepartment of Music Theory of the Lithuanian Academy of Music, the assistant editor-in-chief of the scientific yearly Lithuanian Musicology and an editor at the Lithuanian NationalPhilharmonic. Rima was on internships at the Institute of Musicology at Leipzig University(2004) and IRCAM (2012). She has edited over 15 collections and published around 30articles and more than 150 critic reviews. She was a guest lecturer at the Leipzig University,Tbilisi Conservatoire, Belgrade University of Arts, J. Vitols Latvian Academy of Music, Vilnius University, Kaunas University of Technology etc. Her monograph Musica Mathematica (in Lithuanian, 2013) was awarded the Vytautas Landsbergis prize for the best musicological work. The English version of the monograph was published by Peter Lang in 2016. She is an editor of two collections for Springer (2017 and2018).
Ruta Staneviciute (b. 1960), Ph.D. She is a professor at the Lithuanian Academy of Musicand Theatre. Her current fields of interest are modernism and nationalism in the 20th-21stc. music, philosophical and cultural issues in the analysis of contemporary music, and thestudies of music reception. She has conducted research at the universities of Warsaw,Cambridge, King's College London, Berlin University of Arts and other institutions. She is the author of the book The Figures of Modernity. The International Society for Contemporary Music and the Spread of Musical Modernism in Lithuania (in Lithuanian, 2015). She also edited and co-edited 10 collections of articles on twentieth- and twenty-first-century musical culture and history of music reception; has prepared a college textbook Music as a Cultural Text (2007). Currently she co-edited a collection of musicological articles, Sociocultural Crossings and Borders: Musical Microhistories (2015), in collaboration with the study groups Music and Cultural Studies, Shostakovich and his Epoch: